I am happy to offer some insights on MicroStrategy drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Analytics and Business Intelligence 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research. We utilized a structured research methodology that includes evaluation categories designed to reflect the breadth of the...
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Topics:
Mobile Technology,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Digital Technology
I am happy to offer some insights on Information Builders drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Analytics and Business Intelligence 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research. We utilized a structured research methodology that includes evaluation categories designed to reflect the breadth...
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Topics:
Data Science,
business intelligence,
Mobile Intelligence,
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Digital Technology
I am happy to share some insights gleaned from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Analytics and Business Intelligence 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research. Drawing on our benchmark research, we apply a structured research methodology built on evaluation categories that are designed to...
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Topics:
Data Science,
business intelligence,
Mobile Intelligence,
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Digital Technology
“Straight-through processing” (STP) is a business process and data architecture methodology. Technology advances have made STP increasingly feasible for any business process, allowing companies to design and execute them from inception to completion in a more automated fashion, minimizing or eliminating human intervention in the process. The associated data also progresses automatically end-to-end through the process, preserving its integrity. Because there is no human intervention, data is...
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Data Governance,
Financial Performance Management,
Digital Commerce,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Billing and Recurring Revenue
Ventana Research provides unique insight into the analytics and business intelligence (BI) industry. This is important, as its processes and technology play an instrumental role in enabling an organization’s business units and IT to utilize its data in both tactical and strategic ways to perform optimally. To accomplish this, organizations must provide technology that can access the data, generate and apply insights from analytics, communicate the results and support collaboration as needed.
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Topics:
Data Science,
business intelligence,
Mobile Intelligence,
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Digital Technology
I recently attended BlackLine’s annual user conference. The company aims to automate time-consuming repetitive tasks and substantially reduce the amount of detail that individuals must handle in the department. The phrase “the devil is in the details” certainly applies to accounting, especially managing the details in the close-to-report phase of the accounting cycle, which is where BlackLine plays its role. This phase spans from all the pre-close activities to the publication of the financial...
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Topics:
automation,
close,
closing,
Consolidation,
control,
effectiveness,
Reconciliation,
CFO,
compliance,
Data,
controller,
Financial Performance Management,
FPM,
Sarbanes Oxley,
Accounting,
process management,
report
Workiva recently introduced Wdata, a cloud facility for centralizing financial and non-financial information from multiple sources. It frees up time for finance organizations, especially financial planning and analysis (FP&A) groups, to explore conditions and trends in their business because they need to spend less of it gathering data and preparing it for analysis and reporting. Ventana Research recently awarded Workiva our Digital Innovation award for Wdata because of its transformative...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Continuous Planning,
Data Governance,
Data Preparation,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Sales Planning and Analytics,
revenue recognition
FinancialForce offers cloud-based ERP and professional services automation (PSA) software. The company targets midsize and larger services companies, especially those that provide professional services (such as consultants or field service organizations), subscription-based or recurring revenue services. FinancialForce’s key point of differentiation is that it is built natively on the Salesforce platform. Thus, CRM data is already located on the same platform as accounting and back-office data...
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Topics:
Sales,
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Cloud Computing,
Financial Performance Management,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Billing and Recurring Revenue,
revenue recognition
I am happy to share some insight on AWS drawn from our latest research. The Ventana Research Value Index: Contact Center in the Cloud in 2018 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research. We utilized a structured research methodology that includes evaluation categories designed to reflect the breadth of the real-world criteria incorporated in a request for proposal (RFP) and vendor selection process for contact centers in the cloud. We evaluated AWS...
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Topics:
Customer Analytics,
Customer Engagement,
Customer Experience,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Customer Service,
Contact Center,
Workforce Optimization
Kinaxis recently held its annual user conference, Kinexions, which focuses on helping the company’s customers improve their execution of supply chain and sales and operations planning (S&OP). This year’s event took place against a backdrop of what is beginning to look like a new and more challenging era of world trade. This will have a significant impact on most product companies with international operations. (I also reviewed last year’s event, which can be found here.)
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning